Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This guideline provides evidence-informed and locally adaptable recommendations on the fortification of wheat flour with vitamins and minerals to improve micronutrient status. Recommendations are helpful for the design, implementation, and scaling of nutrition actions and are particularly relevant to food-fortification programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In a study assessing program delivery, participation intensity was highest among older and highly educated participants from moderate wealth households and associated with better recall of topics discussed and greater knowledge of key methods. Associations were most significant for outcomes within individual decision-making ability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research and policy agendas should focus on who and what is given space in nutrition debates, how power is exercised, knowledge of alternative and sustainable food systems, and incorporating equality issues in the design and evaluation of interventions. Instituting levies on the food industry to fund public and community initiatives to address malnutrition, encouraging diffuse power concentration and democratic food governance, and increasing the role of advocacy partners in research and evaluations are important to address the causes of malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Delivering nutritious and safe food requires government institutions with strong food regulatory and enforcement capacity to establish evidence-based standards and enable compliance, writes USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker. The private sector needs greater capacity, commitment, and access to financing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Agriculture digitalization is important to leverage the benefits of digital technologies to transform societies, improve livelihoods, and eradicate poverty. The report identifies countries’ current status by assessing infrastructure, digital penetration, policies and regulations, the business environment, human capital, and agro-innovation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Resources explore potential entry points and ways to identify and engage relevant stakeholders and provide practical ideas to improve food systems’ ability to improve nutrition and health. Case studies demonstrate the impacts of policies and programs related to cash and food transfers, food safety, road transport infrastructure, agricultural extension, and land tenure on food system outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The brief provides recommendations about how stakeholders can include breastmilk in the conceptualization of food systems and ensure women and families have the ability and support to make the best choices for their children, including breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Proven marketing techniques can increase the impact of social and behavior change activities to create demand for healthy diets and foods. This session helps participants identify and apply techniques to generate demand. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is contributing to rising food, fuel, and fertilizer prices around the world, which are particularly impactful for communities already experiencing increased poverty, hunger, and malnutrition due to COVID-19, climate change, and protracted conflict.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The toolkit guides users to apply implementation science in nutrition work. Materials focus on assessing bottlenecks, completing bottleneck and solution inventories, undertaking implementation research, and understanding knowledge brokering. A webinar accompanies the toolkit.